CinemaOSMovie · 1919 · 0h 50m

Prudence on Broadway

A Dramatic Comedy with plenty of action in which demureness disarms a scoundrel and is trapped by a woman's wit

100%(1)IMDbComedy

Prudence's ( Olive Thomas ) parents send her from their Pennsylvania Quaker colony to a fashionable girls seminary, hoping she can learn about the devil's tricks, instead she engages in girlish pranks, but uses her pure appearance to escape blame. Later, Prudence visits her New York aunt, a society matron, and soon attracts an array of male admirers. She falls in love with wealthy Grayson Mills, but John Melbourne, who lives off of his wife's wealth, plots to seduce her. After Melbourne loans Prudence $200 to pay a gambling debt, he forces her to go to a roadhouse by threatening to show her stern father her canceled check. At dinner, Prudence produces a love letter which Melbourne had earlier written to an actress, and says that if she is not back by midnight, her hotel clerk will show Melbourne's wife his nineteen other love letters. After Melbourne hurries her back, he discovers that she only had the one letter. Prudence now becomes engaged to Grayson.

Directed byFrank Borzage

Play
Status
Released
Runtime
0h 50m
Language
EN
Released
July 6, 1919
Studios
Triangle Film Corporation

Featuring

Cast & crew

10 credited
Starring
Olive Thomas

Olive Thomas

Prudence

Francis McDonald

Francis McDonald

Grayson Mills

Harvey Clark

Harvey Clark

John Melbourne

J.P. Wild

John Ogilvie

Alberta Lee

Alberta Lee

Mrs. Ogilvie

Lillian West

Lillian West

Mrs. Allen Wentworth

Edward Peil Sr.

Edward Peil Sr.

Mr. Wentworth

Mary Warren

Mary Warren

Kitty

Lillian Langdon

Lillian Langdon

Mrs. Melbourne

Claire McDowell

Claire McDowell

Miss Grayson

Creative team
Directed by
Frank Borzage
Frank Borzage
Written by
Catherine Carr

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